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Tupperware Party
04:53
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2. |
Precious Feelings
03:29
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3. |
Doing Really Well Thanks
04:43
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i was only passing through
catch up with my parents
take some books from my old room
where they’ll sit on my dresser
in the city where i’ll move
i love the way my face looks in the windows of the tube
distorted like a hall of mirrors
and all those suited men
the city is a buffet just don’t fill up on the bread
is what my best friend told me
when i described how we met
as if the lord himself gave me
a novelty sized cheque
i thought god -
what a generous lover
please don’t ask me how i am
i think you knew the answer
when you went to kiss my hand
oh you know the reason i am here
it’s not the spiral staircase it’s not the chandeliers
oh I’m
doing really well thanks
i look after myself thanks
I don’t need you
yeah I’m
doing really well thanks
i do not need your help thanks
don’t need it
and don’t you pity me
at least i do my crying on
egyptian cotton sheets
who’d have thought that little miss
most likely to succeed
would be conducting business
in the back of limousines
pull up the partition
on one condition
please don’t ask me how i am
i think you knew the answer
when you went to kiss my hand
oh you know the reason i am here
it’s not the spiral staircase it’s not the chandeliers
its that time again
you’ve got work at 9am
i sleep better on your bathroom floor than i do in my bed
oh what must you think of me
please don’t tell them what you’ve seen
I’ve done awful things for money but you’ve all done worse for free
please don’t ask me how i am
i think you knew the answer
when you went to kiss my hand
oh you know the reason i am here
it’s not the spiral staircase it’s not the chandeliers
oh I’m
doing really well thanks
i look after myself thanks
i’m doing really well thanks
i don’t not need you
do not need you
doing really well thanks
i do not need your help thanks
i’m doing really well thanks
i don’t not need you
do not need you
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4. |
Something Wrong
03:04
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5. |
Big Strong Man
05:00
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You were born into the land of signet rings and summer houses
Me, into the province of the personalised number plate
Oh how thrilling it must be to have money but no taste
Safe behind the electronic gates
You were raised with the relentless extraversion of evangelicals
Taught that you’re uncredited if you’re not centre stage
Then they took away your God
and let the floodlights bleach your face
A shivering understudy giving sermons in your place
And you, will never love me
And that’s okay
Think of all the energy I’ll save
Praying to a god, I made up just to
Prove I can
Fuck everything and think like a big strong man
Oh sweet darling, do you ever shut up?
You know I hate it when you interrupt
Let’s go out on the town, your search is through
You’ve finally found a girl who’s smarter than you
-will never love me
And that’s okay
Think of all the energy i’ll save
Praying to a god, i made up just to
Prove I can
Fuck everything and think like a big strong man
And when i play you this song
Here’s what you’ll say
‘I love the breakdown in the middle eight’
And you’ll ignore that strange pulsating thing
I tore out from my chest
You don’t see me rip my heart out
All you see is ugly red
I guess that’s what artists do
Wish I could be a big strong man like you
Never never, never be good enough
Never never, I’ll never be good enough
Never never, I’ll never be good enough
Never never, I’ll never be good enough
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